Model Airplanes

A portion of Brush Hill Park is slated to become Naperville Park District’s first drone field.

The district plans to install four corner posts marking a 300-by-175-foot section on the west end of the park for use by drone enthusiasts who have the proper certification to fly, Director of Parks Kevin Finnegan said.

Opening day is scheduled for Oct. 1.

Brush Hill Park was chosen because it’s “fairly isolated,” Finnegan said. It’s bordered by Illinois Department of Transportation property and the BNSF Railway Line to the north and retention ponds and a car dealership to the south. To the west is Ogden Avenue and on the east is the rest of the park.

Federal Aviation Administration because the agency designates a drone as a small unmanned aircraft system, or UAS.

As such, all UAS owners must be registered with the FAA, and only those 13 years and older and a U.S. citizen are permitted to register an unmanned aircraft.

CABOT, Ark. (KTHV) – When it comes to surprises, no company does it better than Southwest Airlines.

The airline is known for going the extra mile for its customers, surprising them with things like in-flight concerts or cold hard cash!

However, the airline’s latest surprise was reserved for a 9-year-old boy from Cabot.

Will Hamm has a love for two things: Airplanes and Legos. Diagnosed with autism and type one diabetes, he doesn’t let anything stand in his way of dreaming big.

“We didn’t know how that was going to be, but we exceeded every expectation that we had of him,” said his father, Jason Hamm.

His father, Jason Hamm, is a Southwest ramp agent in Little Rock and a big-time aviation fan.

“I’ve had a little bit of influence on him on that,” said Hamm.

Both father and son had quite the collection of airplanes, but one was missing.

“Recently a Louisiana one came out. The new state plane that represents Louisiana” explained Hamm. “Will drew the design and cut it out and put it on the side of this airplane. I took a picture because I wanted to share it with everybody.”

The picture caught the eye of Southwest Airlines employees who helped raise $500 to get Will the last Louisiana One model plane on the shelf. Then they made a special trip to Little Rock to surprise him, recording the entire experience.

“It was like ‘oh my gosh,’” said Will Hamm.

The surprises didn’t stop there. Louisiana One made a stop

Article source: https://www.thv11.com/article/life/heartwarming/southwest-airlines-gives-cabot-boy-surprise-of-a-lifetime/91-565591538

The N.C. Museum of History is getting an additional piece of Wright Brothers memorabilia with the installation on Monday of a replica 1902 Wright Glider.

The glider will hang in the lobby of the Raleigh museum. It replaces a replica of the 1903 Wright Flyer that had been on loan to the state.

Both aircraft belong to the National Park Service’s Wright Brothers Memorial Visitor Center at Kitty Hawk and were moved out when that building was closed for renovations in November 2016. When it reopens — by the fall — the visitor center will have space for just one of the famous brothers’ planes. After some renovations to the replica, the 1903 Wright Flyer will be displayed there, and the 1902 Wright Glider will remain at the N.C. Museum of History on a long-term loan.

A crew from The Wright Experience, a Warrenton, Va., company that specializes in building replicas of the Wright brothers’ planes, handled the disassembly of the 1903 flyer and the reassembly of the 1902 glider. As they worked Monday afternoon, the museum lobby looked like a model airplane hobbyist’s workshop, but with full-sized pieces: maple wing struts, steel wires and winds covered in cotton muslin.

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B.A. Morelli

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CEDAR RAPIDS — One of the city’s top industries is seeking to buy 27.74 acres of public land for a rail yard near the Rompot neighborhood in southeast Cedar Rapids, potentially reducing train traffic in the downtown area and the New Bohemia District.

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Cargill, an agricultural and shipping giant with facilities in Cedar Rapids, hopes to store and switch cars on a vacant tract of city land just south of homes off Otis Road SE and just north of the Prairie Park Fishery. Neighbors received a mailing showing a field with 10 tracks and a tree-lined mound protecting their neighborhood and blocking off the rail yard.

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Cargill trains now are

Article source: http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/business/cargill-proposes-rail-yard-near-rompot-neighborhood-20180618